Africa : What Education for the Future?

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To build a common world and ensure sustainable development for all, the role of education is crucial. The French President, Emmanuel Macron, has decided to make education one of France’s development assistance priorities and to jointly organize, with the President of Senegal, Macky Sall, the replenishment conference of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) in Dakar scheduled on 2 February 2018.

Organizers

The mobilization of France, Senegal, GPE and all stakeholders and partners in the sector is driven by the urgent need to take action, first and foremost in Africa, for education and vocational training for young people, in order to support the empowerment of people, economic dynamism and the quality of social ties. France will be taking this opportunity to join the call addressed to the international community and to the responsibility of all States to make the development of quality education for all, as defined in SDG 4, a priority for action to build a common, open, resilient and inclusive world.

In this context, the French Development Agency decided to organize a day of reflection and exchange around the shared challenge of quality education for all.

Africa : What Education for the Future?

Date

Friday 19 January 2018

Hour

09:00 - 18:00

Place

The first part of the day will be devoted to the discussion of recent publications on the learning challenge and priorities for global action, including the World Bank’s World Development Report 2018 (“ Learning to Realize Education’s Promise ”), the report “Education Quality in sub-Saharan Africa” and the Daniel A. WAGNER’s book “ Learning as development: Rethinking international education in a changing world ”.

14:00 – 18:00 : “ WHAT EDUCATION FOR INCLUSIVE AND RESILIENT AFRICAN SOCIETIES? ”
The second part of the day will bring together policymakers, representatives of governments, multilateral organizations and civil society, teachers and business leaders to discuss priority actions in education, to question the different educational offers and school capacity, in Africa as in France, to keep the learning and training promise for young people looking for self-reliance and knowledge.